Every DNA fragment tells a story. Forensic experts use these genetic breadcrumbs to solve old mysteries and modern crimes.

Charles William Davis, Jr., 77, confessed to the 1975 killing. He is in prison serving life sentences for other murders.

A former British soldier who pleaded guilty to the murder of three women at their family home north of London has been ...

Army veteran Stephan Smerk, 53, pleaded guilty in October to the 1994 stabbing death of 37-year-old Robin Lawrence, who was ...

The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. An investigation shows they were the culmination of a coordinated, international recruiting effort by ...

What drives a serial killer? Hardwired instincts, symbolic triggers, and ritualized predation—unraveling ancestral imprints.

Historical accounts say Betty Lathen, an enslaved woman in Monmouth County at the time, accompanied her enslaver, Arthur ...

When Fairfax County police confronted Stephen Smerk, he was married and raising two high school-aged children in a quiet town ...

Stephan Smerk pleaded guilty to the crime last year. As a result of the plea agreement, he will be eligible for parole.

A teenager wanted in connection with a string of alleged sexual assaults in the Twin Cities was arrested earlier this week in ...

However, few of these stories are quite so disturbing as that of Amarjeet Sada, who is widely considered to be the world’s youngest serial killer. Many deadly criminals notoriously tortured animals as ...

Boroski says she believes she was almost killed by a serial killer. "This vehicle pulled up, parked next to me," she said. "And next thing I know, he gets out, walks around the back side of my car ...